CHILDREN are being secretly reared in Britain for sacrifice by Satanists, says a Government-backed
expert.
Psychotherapist Valerie Sinason, who has been paid by the Department of Health to study adult
survivors of alleged organised ritual abuse, said yesterday she was "completely convinced" Satanic
abuse does occur.
She claimed to have evidence about children whose births were not officially registered being reared
for abuse and sacrifice.
The scientist, who edited a clinical textbook on Satanist abuse after the controversies in Rochdale, the
Orkneys and Nottingham in the early 1990s, has claimed previously to have evidence of at least 100
murders.
Her study of cases from nearly 40 psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health experts will claim that
she has seen evidence of physical injuries in adult survivors, who tell of seeing people drugged and
killed. She said that out of 76 patients she has seen at her London clinic, 46 claimed that they had
witnessed the murder of children or adults.
The Department of Health yesterday stressed that it stood by the findings of a 1994 report which concluded there was
organised abuse but that it was "not helpful or appropriate to call it Satanic".Scotland Yard is carrying out its own research
project into ritual abuse.
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